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(Compulsory) PASSAGEII Of the many aspects of public administration, the ethical aspects are perhaps the most important but the least codified. While administrative rules and procedure have been codified in various public documents and manuals, there is no manual for the ethics of public servants. While organisational behaviour analyses the factors which influence the behaviour of individuals in an organisation, ethics refer to those norms and standards which behaviour of the people in an organisation must conform. While behaviour analysis deals with factual aspects, ethics relate to the normative aspects of administration. The normative aspects are of the greatest significance. Just as for an individual if character is lost, everying is lost, so also for an administration if the ethics is lost, everything is lost. Neither efficiency nor loyalty could be substitute for high ethical standards. In India, though there is no ethical code for public administrators, there are what are called, the Government Servants Conduct Rules. These rules lay down what constitutes misconduct for the public servants. It is apparently implied that such misconduct, which is not permitted, is also unethical conduct. 1. As per the passage, organisational behaviour is (1) same as ethics in organisations (2) different from ethics in organisations (3) human behaviour in organisations including ethics (4) None of these Ethics is to an administration, what character is for (1) an administrator (2) an official (3) an individual (4) None of these

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3. Directions: Choose the word that does NOT belong to the two given words. Wonderful, Fabulous (1) Superb

(2) Superlative

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Great

(4) Splendid

4. Directions: Choose the appropriate set of words that make the sentence most meaningful. He was .................... very clever, but he .................... performed excellently. (1) certainly, obviously (2) never, also (3) not, always (4) rarely, seldom 5. Directions: Choose the most appropriate preposition to complete the sentence. The country is ushering .... a new era. (1) into (2) in

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of

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General Awareness (Compulsory) 1. Which of the following banks has decided to open a branch in Israel in the next few months to finance growing bilateral trade that crossed two billion dollar mark in 2004?

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(1) Punjab National Bank (3) Canara Bank 2. What is the International Date Line ? (1) the equator (3) 90 longitude (2) State Bank of India (4) Bank of Baroda

(2) zero degrees longitude (4) 180 degrees longitude

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In the election of the President (of India) who among the following do not take part ? (1) Members of Legislative Council (2) Elected Members of Lok Sabha (3) Elected Members of Rajya Sabha (4) None of the above Name of the Indian actor who has been awarded the Pakistans highest civilian medel, Nishan-i-Imtiaz (1) Dilip Kumar (2) Shabana Azmi (3) Amitabh Bachchan (4) None of these Wills is a brand of (1) ITC Ltd. (3) Godfrey Phillip

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(2) BAT (4) None of these

Logical and Analytical Reasoning (Compulsory) 1. Directions: Mehta is planning his sales calls for the next day. He is judged and paid by his company both on the basis of the number of calls he makes and the amount of sales he generates. Alembic Co. will take only one hour and will probably result in an order of 5 boxes. Bell Corp. will take three hours and will result in an order of 20 boxes or nothing. Champion Shops Inc. will take one hour and yield an order of 10 boxes. Des Raj Bros. will take from one to three hours and probably result in an order of 10 to 30 boxes.

Under the conditions mentioned above, what is the greatest number of boxes Mehta can reasonably help to sell in a seven-hour working day? (1) 65 (2) 60 (3) 45 (4) 35 2. Directions: A statement is given followed by two conclusions I and II. Take the and then decide which of the conclusions logically follows. Mark the answer as (1) if only conclusion I follows (2) if only conclusion II follows (3) if either conclusion I or II follows (4) if neither I nor II follows. statement to be true

Statement : Of the ten fishermen caught in a storm, nine managed to return to the shore. Praveen has not yet returned after four days. Conclusions : I. Praveen got killed in the storm II. Praveen has survived the storm.

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3. Directions: Seven poles A, B, C, D, E, F and G are put in such a way that the distance between the next two decreases by 1 meter. The distance between the first two poles A and B is 10 meters. Now answer the following questions. If a monkey hops from G to C pole, how much distance did it cover? (1) 26 m (2) 19 m (3) 22 m (4) None of these

4. Directions: Find the odd one out. (1) 5183 (2) 33442 (3) 34424 (4) 25631

5. Directions: Answer the question based on the following paragraph. Five golfers, C, D, E, F and G, play a series of matches in which the following are always true of the results. Either C is last and G is first or C is first and G is last. D finishes ahead of E. Every golfer plays in and finishes every match. There are no ties in any match; that is, no 2 players ever finish in the same position in a match. If exactly 1 golfer finishes between C and D, which of the following must be true? (1) C finishes first (3) F finishes third (2) (4) G finishes first E finishes fourth

Quantitative Aptitude (Optional) 1. A player holds 13 cards of four suits of which seven are black and six are red. There are twice as many diamonds as spades and twice as many hearts as diamonds. How many clubs does he hold? (1) 4 2. (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) 7

In a one-day cricket match, Agarkar, Sehwag, Sachin. Dravid and Ganguly scored an average of 39 runs. Dravid scored 7 more than Ganguly, Ganguly secored 9 fewer than Agarkar, Sehwag scored as many as Dravid and Ganguly combined; and Sehwag and Sachin scored 110 runs between them. How many runs did Sachin score? (1) 47 (3) 53 (2) 51 (4) None of the above

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A father divides his property between his two sons A and B. A invests the amount of compound interest of 8% p.a. B invests the amount at 10% p.a. simple interest. At the end of 2 years, the interest received by B is Rs. 1336 more than the interest received by A. Find the share of A in the fathers property of Rs. 25,000. (1) Rs. 12,000 (2) Rs. 13,000 (3) Rs. 12,500 (4) Rs. 10,000

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In 1932, I was as old as the number formed by the last two digits of my birth year. When I mentioned this interesting coincidence to my grandfather, he surprised me by saying that the same applied to him also. The year of birth of my grandfather is

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(1) 1866 5. (2) 1886 (3) 1906 (4) 1916

If 3/5 of a number is 23, more than 50% of the same number, then what will be 80% of the number? (1) 92 (2) 184 (3) 180 (4) 186

Life Sciences (Optional) 1. Red blood corpuscles placed in 0.5% sodium chloride solution will show (1) Bursting (3) Plasmolysis 2. (2) Crenation (4) Turgidity

Plants do not store carbohydrate as glucose but do so as starch because glucose (1) is unstable (3) will change nucleic acids (2) attracts herbivores (4) alters osmotic balance

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The (1) (2) (3) (4)

appendix in man is Vestigial Involved in bile storage Similar to stomach in shape Involved in digestion of vegetable food (2) C7T13 L7 S4 CD15 (4) C7 T13 L7 S4 CD16 (2) 20% of nerve cells in the brain die (4) None of these (Optional)

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Formula of vertebrae column is (1) C6T13L6S4CD15 (3) C7T12 S4 CD16

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70 yrs old man forgets recent events because (1) 40% of nerve cells in the brain die (3) 10% of nerve cells in the brain die

IT Awareness 1.

The comma operator (,) is primarily used in conjunction with (1) for statement (2) if-else statement (3) do-while statement (4) All of the above Coding and testing are done in a (1) top-down manner (3) ad hoc manner XHTML is a subset of the (1) Extensible Mark-up language (XML) (2) WWW (3) Java (5) Java script

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(2) bottom-up manner (4) cross sectional manner

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4. You (1) (2) (3) (4) were installing an application in Windows 95, and the computer crashes, what do you do ? press alt + ctrl + delete, twice press alt + ctrl + delete, and end task press the reset button on the computer turn off computer and boot from a floppy disk.

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Which of the following devices send and receive information from other devices? (1) Mouse port (2) Serial port (3) Video port (4) Parallel port Media Awareness (Optional)

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Which is most important department in newspaper? (1) Editorial (2) Advertising (3) Administrative Which of the following is/are called as fourth estate? (1) Print media (2) Electronic media (3) Visual media (4) All the above The Press Council of India has (1) 25 members (3) 30 members (2) 28 members (4) 35 members

(4) Press

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Tabloid Journalism is also called (1) Yellow Journalism (3) White Journalism (2) Red Journalism (4) None of the above

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Frequency Modulation (FM) Broadcasting was first introduced in 1977 in (1) Bombay (3) Madras (2) Delhi (4) Jalandhar Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics (Optional)

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Energy is not carried through the medium by (1) transverse progressive waves (2) Longitudinal progressive waves (3) stationary waves (4) electromagnetic waves An ice-skater, weighing 60 kg moving at 10 m/s glides to a stop. If 80% of the heat generated by friction is absorbed by the ice, the amount of ice melted will be nearly (1) 30 g (2) 14 g (3) 7.1 g (4) 4.1 g

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3. Eight chairs are numbered 1 to 8. Two women and three men wish to occupy one chair each. First the women choose the chairs from amongst the chairs marked 1 to 4; and then the men select the chairs from amongst the remaining. The number of possible arrangements is (1) 6C3 4C2 (2) 4P2 4P3 (3) 4C2 4P3 (4) None of these A gas can be liquified by pressure alone when its temperature is (1) higher than its critical temperature (2) Lower than its critical temperature (3) Equal to its critical temperature (4) None of the above 20 volumes H2O2 solution has strength of about (1) 3% (2) 6%

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(3) 10% Psychology (Optional)

(4) 30%

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After a night of heavy drinking, alcoholics are unable to remember where they went or what they did. The next time they drink, they suddenly remember everything. This illustrates the effect of (1) Functional fixedness (2) State-dependent memory (3) Korsakoffs syndrome (4) Retroactive interference We have a will to power and a will to pleasure, and both of them are self-defeating. This is the theoretical view of (1) W. Sullivan (2) Gordon Allport (3) Alfred Adler (4) V.E. Frankl Which of the following could lead to psychopathology? (1) Fear of failure (2) Self-actualisation (3) Self-confidence (4) Little gap between real and ideal self Which of the following is primarily a verbal test? (1) WAIS (2) Stanford-Binet

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(3) WISC

(4) Blacky

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Which of the following is most firmly supported by experimental evidence? (1) Psychoanalysis (2) Trait theory (3) Behaviourism (4) Phenomenology